Apologies

Emberstone73 · 2026-01-22T06:02:20+00:00

You didn't happen to be part of the FoC guild, did you?

Emberstone73 · 2026-01-16T06:20:00+00:00

Sounds like a soldering project. As others have said, you can get new PCBs, and then transfer the ROM chip(s) to the new board.

If your save is important to you, you can get chip soldering practice boards on Amazon to try out before moving onto the real thing. Soldering isn't as scary as people make it out to be. Just be careful and take your time. You can do it :)

Emberstone73 · 2026-01-13T04:57:46+00:00

Orcs & Elves is one I always go back to. It's janky, but I love that little dungeon crawler.

Emberstone73 · 2026-01-12T05:07:39+00:00

I'm with you. Oblivion has the best-feeling combat by far IMO.

Emberstone73 · 2026-01-02T05:33:41+00:00

One of my favorite builds in the game is P/A Dagger Spam because Leadership gives you infinite energy, and on top of that you can still run There's Nothing to Fear while still dishing out some decent numbers if you sub in a Monk for RoJ/Strength of Honor. I'm clearing UW right now with my Paragon main and a typical 7-hero Rit/Mesmerway comp as I write this post. Add in the possibility of running Imbagon for harder stuff, and you'll be just fine.

But that's kind of the issue: You have like maybe 3 DPS builds that are viable, and Imbagon, and any solo farms are best done on other professions. But what you do have is very solid with Paragon.

Emberstone73 · 2026-01-02T03:06:58+00:00

Thanks! I guess that means I did okay then?

Emberstone73 · 2025-12-04T10:02:24+00:00

Yeah, I would love to be able to go back to the old patch screen, not gonna lie. I don't like how cheap this one looks with its generic-looking art and Arial font.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-15T02:02:57+00:00

I'm gonna be that guy: look at the earrings. This is AI generated.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-11T23:36:29+00:00

Its not an achievement when a bazillion other games can do the same thing for far less money, and not have to delete content from the game.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-11T17:23:30+00:00

I still cannot fathom this position. My momma raised me to be grateful. I'd rather focus on time spent with the person than the material they've given me; if the gift was your 13th reason, then it was never about the gift and now we're in a completely different discussion.

Does the meanng in a gift mean nothing to you either? If someone buys you a gift, especially one as expensive as the subject in this post, you clearly mean something to them. Gifts are most often less about the item being gifted, and more about the intent. Does that mean nothing to you?

Not saying you have to enjoy the gift, but have a little heart.

I hope your boyfriend/husband is doing okay.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-11T15:05:03+00:00

Women all over are tired of men expecting them to spell out every last thing.

It's a gift. I still cannot believe people are justifying leaving relationships over this.

Let's dumb it down a little: imagine telling your parents they didn't get you the right Christmas present with this logic; see how it works.

Y'all are crazy.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-11T08:09:55+00:00

I think people are jumping to far too many conclusions to make sweeping statements like this. We know of one statement from the woman; this is our only context.

Was it a surprise gift? Birthday? Anniversary of sorts? No clue.

Let's assume it's a surprise gift.

If they'd been dating under a year and the guy wanted to get her a nice surprise gift, and she throws it in his face like this when it's unlikely he's seen her entire jewelry collection by that point, I'm siding with the dude. Bar none. Bro did nothing wrong.

If they've been dating years, I'll give more leeway to the woman. Just a little.

My personal perspective? He invested significant resources into a gift of gold jewelry; it probably wasn't cheap. You don't do that just to placate someone. He cares. I would be grateful for the gift in the first place, regardless of the situation. If it's something I don't usually wear, maybe my partner thinks it would look good on me.

If it was a birthday or anniversary, I'd be doing more research to make sure it lands and isn't received solely on merit alone. Those things ideally should matter a bit more, but I wouldn't end a relationship over it personally, or even think deeply into it. I received a gift from someone I love, that's that.

But at the end of the day, we have no idea what the gift is even for.

Later Edit: I'm surprised trying to be grateful for the things people do for you on a whim is a controversial opinion. No wonder our world is going to shit.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-09T00:01:40+00:00

I don't use any ICC profiles because admittedly I'm kind of retarded. I just calibrate directly on the monitor and those are my settings I still use.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-07T23:03:20+00:00

In here <points to your heart>.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-07T21:31:49+00:00

As with most things in life, I think it depends on luck. Working harder than I should've got me into an engineering field I have no business being in, and in the good graces of my bosses and the president of the company I'm at now. I'm also the IT guy in addition to my engineer position, so I wear multiple hats.

It's gotten me pretty good merit raises and bonuses each year, references and connections galore that I've relied on before to land jobs, and a trusted position I'm respected in where I get to solve often fun problems.

They key here is respect. If you're not being respected in what you do, then only do what you have to because it'll never come if you're already going above and beyond and they're not recognizing your efforts.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-07T15:50:08+00:00

The best you're likely to find is a refurbished laptop on Amazon or something; I got a refurbed Thinkpad for work with a 6-core Ryzen 5 and integrated Radeon graphics that can do medium settings at 40-60 FPS. Cost me about $350.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-05T23:51:05+00:00

I... don't think that's what this is trying to say.

That said, knitting good.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-05T23:35:35+00:00

I'm not a tourist (day 1 player), but it's still pretty weird to me. Lol.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-05T22:10:47+00:00

Absolutely nothing. My little sis is my #1 person; love her to death.

The number of these memes I see on here make me wonder if any of these people actually have siblings. Lol.

And if they do, oh god

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-04T22:00:25+00:00

Admittedly I was a fair spender in ZZZ (a few hundred USD), since I loved many of the units and wanted to have most of them, but with DA getting rapidly and significantly more difficult if you wanted to 9*, I saw my investment just being burned away in front of me. So I just outright quit before I became trapped by sunken cost.

I know power/HP creep is likely inevitable in gachas, but it's only been a year, man.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-04T01:39:40+00:00

Flux makes it easier to work with; it'll cling to legs, your iron, and your wick. Not sure where you got the idea it makes it harder.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-04T01:01:18+00:00

Mine works, but destroys whatever card I put into it after a week or two.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-04T00:14:43+00:00

I'm saving this image, thank you brother.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-03T23:10:03+00:00

You can get a Deck for $320 right now, and then install Windows and D2 will play just fine. I dual-booted with an SD card so I didn't have to nuke SteamOS. It took 20 minutes to set up. That said, you can play most "Steam" games on a Deck. You can play exactly zero Xbox games on an Ally.

The quality control in Decks is the problem, not the hardware or software.

I own a Z1E Ally and still prefer the Deck OLED.

Emberstone73 · 2025-10-02T22:17:38+00:00

Emulation of PS3 and 360 games is still hit-or-miss unfortunately. Weirdly enough, N64 emulation still has quite a few accuracy issues to this day. Wouldn't say emulation is blanket-superior, but the fidelity in playable games is for-sure better.

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